HashiCorp

Working across infrastructure teams, product engineering teams, security teams, data teams, compliance teams, and more to level up the company's security and compliance postures as well as infrastructure quality.

Staff Technical Program Manager: Infrastructure, Security, Compliance

- (Delivered 2024 Q1) Successful delivery of Disaster Recovery capabilities across multiple AWS regions, boosting cloud platform Reliability by achieving internal targeted measurements of RTO and RPO (scaled execution across ~12 engineering teams / ~50 engineers over the course of 12 months)
- (Delivered 2024 Q1) Successful delivery of Audit Logging improvements to Beta with identity log streaming to desired SIEM destination (~3 engineering teams and collaboration with non-engineering groups such as product education and marketing)
- Actively driving PCI Compliance for 2 of HashiCorp's product lines, requiring scaled collaboration across Security, Compliance, Product, and multiple engineering teams.

Senior Technical Program Manager: Infrastructure

Blue Jay Digital, LLC

Owner and creator of Blue Jay Digital. I created this LLC as a way to create digital goods and services to help others move forward in their own professional journey.

Currently, this is being done via:
- A course on Technical Program Management, hosted on Educative.io
- A series of YouTube videos teaching the basics of R and R-Studio for data analytics

Owner

Educative, Inc.

Responsible for end-to-end text-based course creation.
- Defined course curriculum and objectives
- Segmented course into 13 major modules
- Wrote 12 hours of content on the topics of program management, leadership, and system design technical skills 
- Provided 61 illustrations

(https://www.educative.io/courses/technical-program-management-a-practitioners-guide)
- Partnered with Educative.io for editing

Author

Twitter

- Driving data privacy program involving 30+ teams across multiple organizations including product, engineering, info-sec, and legal
- Driving a critical path program to improve the privacy controls of advertisers

Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Privacy

- Led various engineering divestiture activities through MoPub sale to AppLovin ($1B deal) across 5 cross-functional domains engineering, product, legal, finance, and audit.
- Drove key process changes to strategic planning and tactical execution for MoPub's product development pipeline and cross-functional collaboration across 5 teams (60 engineers) and 8 product managers
- Drove data privacy program involving 30+ teams across multiple organizations including product, engineering, info-sec, and legal

Technical Program Manager II, Product

ExxonMobil

- Led a team of ~four developers to design, build, and support 15 enterprise-scale API’s which collectively receive over one million requests per day and enable a portfolio of applications to drive bottom-line business value of ~35mil/year
- Collaborated & coordinated across six various project teams to identify business objectives, customer pain-points, and consulted on API solutions
- Coached team on Scrum & Kanban principles/practices to increase speed of project delivery and improve response time to support incidents
- Created and drove roadmap for API support team improvements such as enhanced monitoring, improved log management, analysis of API consumption data, and infrastructure updates for greater availability and performance
- Managed a headcount budget for contractor costs throughout 2019

API Technical Product Manager

- Designed and developed multiple enterprise scale API’s (MuleSoft) using best practice architectural guidelines for API design and implementation
- Co-Created ExxonMobil’s Houston-based API developer community to encourage collaboration across business units
- Designed and created internal website (Angular Front-end, Sharepoint Backend) for new-hire organization detailing events, information, and opportunities

API Software Engineer

- Supported a competitive intelligence application for cross-functional business users by diagnosing issues, discovering root cause, and implementing solutions
- Improved product delivery & support processes by leading team through value stream mapping and customer journey mapping
- Coordinated all cyber security vulnerability assessments and remediation efforts on all systems for parent organization of ~200 people

Advanced Information Systems Analyst

Business intelligence automation and cutting-edge technology product evaluation.

Analytics Intern

Brigham Young University

Learn to extract, transform, load data from existing MySQL to new Graph Database (OrientDB).
Create test scripts to prove accuracy of migrated data against old database.
Design a web-interface to access information from new database.

Database Developer/Research Assistant

Goldman Sachs

Automated a 4 week process to become a 24 hour process.
Created/validated designs against user stories with clients to streamline process and reduce human error.
Led the intern development team by taking the role of middle-ware & backend engineer using Java.

Intern - Technology Analyst/Developer

Created an implementation plan to upgrade system-wide physical security system software
Removed impediments for developers as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment
Prioritized/managed the backlog & gathered business requirements as a Product Manager

IT Project Manager

Developed and maintained internal managerial web-apps using AngularJS/HTML/CSS.
Worked cohesively in a Scrum team to effectively build solutions and meet deadlines.

Junior Front-End Web-Developer

Manually tested 8+ internal software products for 4 different development teams.
Executed automation test-scripts on web-apps with Ruby & Selenium Web-driver.
Learned and pioneered stress-testing with Apache Jmeter on internal servers and web-apps.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Academy for Creating Enterprise

The Microenterprise Education Initiative (MEI) provides individual business owners in emerging and frontier markets personalized, online business and leadership coaching. I work as a coach with current clients in Africa. I also work with the software team as a UI Analyst to help deliver the most value through the software that is developed.

Business Coach & UI Analyst

Missionary Training Center

Trained 40+ groups on effective interpersonal communication skills, various teaching methods & concepts, and simplifying a broad and deep message to be concise. I was implemented as a lead teacher 4 times. I was a resource for other teachings to assist in helping missionaries understand and practice difficult teaching concepts.

Teacher

Technical Program Management and Leadership

Technical Program Management. Its the craft of solving problems that come from scaled execution of strategically important initiatives.

That's a mouth-full! But it just boils down to the fact that TPM's get big complex things done.

Having spent a decade in various tech roles, I am able to successfully navigate the complex interdependencies of large initiatives. I practice the core skills of planning, stakeholder management, risk management, communication management, dependency management, system design, and leadership.

These can all be summed up in what I call The TPM Craft Framework: Program Management, Technical Versatility, and Leadership. In my newsletter (The TPM Craft), I regularly dive deep into those topics.

Outside of my 9-5 I spend time with my family, read books, write, exercise, watch movies....etc. No major special hobbies, mostly just family time.

I may not know everything, but I can learn anything.

James Dayhuff

😫 I've done the unthinkable.
🤯 I am no longer a Staff Technical Program Manager.
😅 As of this week, I am a Senior Product Manager. 

I recently made a lateral move within HashiCorp / IBM from the role of a Technical Program Manager to a Product Manager.

It was all fairly sudden, but aligned well with the goals of the business and my hunger for growth and learning new things.

The TPM community is...remarkable.
Such a tight-nit group of talented people!
It is sad to no longer have the title of Technical Program Manager.

At the same time, my mind is enveloped in the fascinating pursuit of expanding my skillset in the tech domain.

✅ Started my career doing Engineering to build cool stuff.
✅ Shifted into Technical Program Management to bring people together to build cool stuff.
✅ Now pivoting into Product Management to define the cool stuff we get to build.

Definitely the right next step for me at this time.

(Now I need to decide what to do with my TPM newsletter...but don't worry, I've got some ideas 😎)

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Senior Product Manager at IBM! 👾

(This is the formal "I've updated my linkedin experience" post. See my other post sharing the change: https://shorturl.at/yEQoS)

RapidScale

Lead Product Manager – Public Cloud Applications
(Datadog – Cloud Observability | Arpio – AWS Disaster Recovery | Liminal AI – Generative AI Security)
• Own product strategy and end-to-end lifecycle for 3rd-party Cloud Application Services spanning Resell, Professional, and Managed Services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Build a Consulting + Professional Services practice and drive toward a full-stack Observability Managed Offering across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Hosted, powered by Datadog — with AWS Infrastructure Monitoring targeted for FY26 launch.
• Manage strategic vendor partnerships and contract negotiations, aligning commercial models, integration standards, and roadmap priorities across cloud platforms.
• Drive GTM alignment across Sales, SEs, Product Marketing, Legal, Ops, and Alliances to ensure cross-functional readiness, enablement, and large-scale adoption.
• Shape investment and roadmap decisions by synthesizing customer insights, platform data, and market trends into actionable priorities.

Lead Product Manager

Cox Communications

• Oversaw 40+ R PHY East projects across the NE, SE, FL & GA regions, leveraging Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and ATX Network infrastructure.
• Achieved 100% completion of 35+ POR 2024 projects, including R PHY Metro, CCAP, and Inet Shared Services.
• Delivered 119 Metro Router West projects (2022–2023) valued at $850M, meeting organizational deadlines and budget targets.
• Developed the EMO POR Baseline vs. Actuals Tool, improving milestone tracking and project planning accuracy.
• Spearheaded SiteTracker external reporting integration, enabling seamless Power BI access for non-licensed users and improving cross-departmental collaboration.
• Presented actionable insights to leadership through the Power BI Learning Series, aligning reporting frameworks with strategic goals.
• Recovered $73K in equipment costs through proactive coordination with Supply Chain and Field Engineering teams.
• Member of internal Engineering Management Office Power BI Team; Involved with various team initiatives to include creating Power-BI Dashboards as requested by Leadership, facilitation of trainings around Power-BI reporting & risk & issue tool development.
• Collaborated efficiently with cross-functional teams, closely monitoring project progress, & proactively identifying & mitigating risks.
• Supported & facilitated all phases of project execution, ensuring milestones are met & activities are closed on time.

Technical Project Manager

Georgia Department of Community Health

Conducted a Cyber Maturity Assessment for the Georgia Department of Community Health.

Our primary task was to identify & recommend security controls that comply with the Health Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Essentials, 1-year (e1) Validated Assessment. My Team & I supported the DCH initiative of the review of current security controls in place with the primary objective of continued enhancements to their overall security resilience. This endeavor provided us with invaluable insights into NIST 800-53, GTA, and HITRUST e1, further enhancing our understanding in these domains.

We had an amazing time working with the CISO, Will Monahan & the DCH security team as well as being a student/mentee of David Allen (Who helped sponsor this Project/Partnership)!

Throughout this Project, I was also the the designated Product Owner/Project Manager for our Team which consisted of Andrew Greenblatt, Sai Jayanth Reddy Yenumula, Wonik, Kim, Manishankar Vaddi & myself.

Cyber Security Analyst & Product Owner (College Sponsored Project)

• Consolidated 150+ Salesforce reports, showcased during RapidScale’s annual sales kickoff, directly supporting sales enablement and efficiency.
• Enhanced Salesforce CRM functionality for Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) tracking, empowering sales teams with actionable insights for segmentation and forecasting.
• Developed dynamic models in VisualizeROI to highlight ROI during customer engagements, supporting deal closure and enhancing customer trust.
• Analyzed industry trends and competitors to inform product decisions, contributing insights to RapidScale’s product strategy and roadmap alignment.

Product Management Intern

Salesforce

• Consolidated & Collated all Thought Leadership that currently existed within the Digital Transformation Office; Effectively establishing base-line metrics that had never been captured previously along with creating new frameworks for Thought Leadership consolidation
• Engaged with all 21 Regional Executive across the globe to better understand & analyze trends surrounding C-level conversations to enhance Thought Leadership program
• Discovered trends that existed around Thought Leadership within the Digital Transformation Office & performed analysis on the roles each Regional Executive appeared to be fulfilling around Content Creation
• Assisted Regional Executives with any required preparatory tasks, including collecting, consolidating collateral, pulling up customer case studies, & providing relevant customer & technology product information
• Discussed probable customer situational analysis with the Regional Executives & supplied research & findings as they became available
• Maintained a presence & connection with a cross-functional team & every stakeholder organization such as Marketing, Customers Success, Services & Product Engineering

Digital Transformation Office (MuleSoft) Intern

Global Data Solutions - Atlanta, GA

• Conducted data visualization and analysis using Power BI and managed WordPress backend operations.
• Provided business and technical insights to support Acumatica Cloud ERP implementation.

Business Analyst Intern

Accenture

Accenture Innovation Challenge

Georgia Gwinnett College

Student Manager - GGC Wellness and Recreation Center

Student Manager

United States Marine Corps

Honorably served within the United States Marine Corps for 4 years, finishing my service as a Sergeant of Marines. During my time, I had the pleasure with working with and managing many different individuals from various different backgrounds. I have been constantly tasked throughout my Marine Corps career with being put into various leadership roles/positions. I have been proven to be a team leader and team player and am extremely passionate about ensuring project success. Among many things, the Marine Corps has taught me how to persevere through adversity. The experiences I have had along with the priceless mentor-ship I have received have truly molded me into the individual I currently am today.

Marine

• Served as Operations Supervisor for a 12-person team in support of 8th Engineer Support Battalion
• Constructed fuel-farm with the ability to dispense 40k gallons of fuel daily. Site was constructed in a safe and efficient manner
• Maintained 100% accountability of all professional equipment utilized
• Ensured all personnel received necessary logistical needs such as food and water

Operations Supervisor

• Served as Operations Supervisor in support of Combat Logistics Detachment 281
• Monitored and accurately recorded 543 objectives and processed 113 logistical support requests which supported 8 agencies in the area of responsibility 
• Volunteered to taking on responsibilities as training supervisor while simultaneously learning how to utilize the Marine Corps Training Information Management System(Marine Corp's version of ERP running on Oracle database backend) to complete the tasks at hand
• Ensured all training, professional military education, and military occupational specialty training for 159 personnel were accurately recorded and submitted for approval enabling the organization to meet and record all training requirements
• Received a Certificate of Commendation award signed by the Division head for my work ethic and actions during this job

Operations Supervisor/Training Supervisor

• Served as Team Leader for 10-person team
• Supervised fueling operations for military air-craft and logged over 1 million gallons of fuel 	dispensed 
• Ensured no fuel was spilled and work areas were safe in accordance with OSHA, EPA and DOD regulations

Team Leader Fuel Operations Support

• Charged with handling and ensuring proper logistics of $300,000+ worth of fuel
• Conducted daily checks to ensure logistical requirements were met and supported agencies could complete corresponding responsibilities

Bulk Fuel Specialist Supervisor

• Took part in construction of fuel-farm with the ability to dispense up to 200k gallons of fuel daily

Bulk Fuel Specialist

The Vitamin Shoppe

• Assisted customers in purchase of supplements 
• Kept daily accountability of inventory on hand and financial transactions
• Monitored store inventory and ensured items were regularly restocked as needed

Retail Associate

Lead Product Manager | Emory Goizueta MBA Candidate | GSU MSIS Cybersecurity Graduate | Marine Corps Veteran | Jiu-Jitsu Enthusiast

Full intro:
I'm a Lead Product Manager at RapidScale, where I drive product strategy, execution, and innovation in the public cloud applications space. With 7+ years of experience between Product & Technical Project Management, I’ve worked across IT and digital transformation, solving complex problems and delivering impactful solutions.

I hold an MS in Information Systems (Cybersecurity) from Georgia State University and am currently pursuing my MBA at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. Before RapidScale, I led $850M+ in IT infrastructure projects as a Technical Project Manager at Cox Communications, ensuring seamless deployment across multiple markets. I also worked in Digital Transformation at Salesforce, collaborating with Executive Solution Engineers to drive thought leadership in sales strategy and refine go-to-market approaches.

Before my corporate career, I served in the United States Marine Corps, where I learned how to thrive under pressure, lead from the front, and adapt to any challenge thrown my way. That experience instilled a warrior spirit that I carry into product leadership, problem-solving, and mentorship.

I’m passionate about tech, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship—always exploring new ideas, leveraging AI & automation for product innovation, and helping others grow through mentorship, especially fellow Veterans and students.

Outside of work, I’m a Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt, gym rat, and always on the hunt for the next great book. If you know me, you know I’m probably talking about startups, stocks, or figuring out how to maximize AMEX points for my next trip.

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